Henry Gray and Henry Vandyke Carter began working together on their second collaborative book, which became Gray's Anatomy, in 1855.
Notes on verification
Multiple independent, authoritative sources (RCS England, LSHTM, PMC, Wikipedia, and Richardson's biography) corroborate both the 1855 start date and the fact that this was the pair's second collaboration following the 1854 spleen monograph. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=silver indep_score=1.0 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=partial on Many secondary sources (blogs, Wikipedia, RCS materials) draw on Ruth Richardson's biography and Carter's diaries as the primary historical record (upstreams: Ruth Richardson's 'The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy' (2008), Henry Vandyke Carter's personal diaries (held at Wellcome Library)) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=empirical eligibility=high]
Sources
- Gray’s Anatomy Descriptive and Applied: the greatest account of anatomical understanding available — Royal College of Surgeons (seed:anatomy_and_medical_oddities)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2287212/ (corroboration)
- https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-making-of-mr-grays-anatomy-9780199570287 (corroboration)
- https://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/library/2021/05/21/lshtm-rare-books-blog-series-no-1-henry-vandyke-carter-1831-1897/ (corroboration)
- https://library.rcsed.ac.uk/about-us/blog/archive/jealousy-praps-henry-gray-henry-vandyke-carter-and-grays-anatomy (corroboration)